Hacking the brain: dimensions of cognitive enhancement

M Dresler, A Sandberg, C Bublitz, K Ohla… - ACS chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In an increasingly complex information society, demands for cognitive functioning are
growing steadily. In recent years, numerous strategies to augment brain function have been …

Limits to human enhancement: nature, disease, therapy or betterment?

B Hofmann - BMC medical ethics, 2017 - Springer
Background New technologies facilitate the enhancement of a wide range of human
dispositions, capacities, or abilities. While it is argued that we need to set limits to human …

A perceived moral agency scale: Development and validation of a metric for humans and social machines

J Banks - Computers in Human Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
Although current social machine technology cannot fully exhibit the hallmarks of human
morality or agency, popular culture representations and emerging technology make it …

The recognition of animal sentience by the law

CE Blattner - Journal of animal ethics, 2019 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
In order to protect nonhuman animals effectively, animal law must overcome many hurdles,
be it the balance of human and nonhuman interests, the use paradigm, or narrow definitions …

A CRISPR new world: attitudes in the public toward innovations in human genetic modification

SM Weisberg, D Badgio, A Chatterjee - Frontiers in public health, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The potential to genetically modify human germlines has reached a critical tipping point with
recent applications of CRISPR-Cas9. Even as researchers, clinicians, and ethicists weigh …

Sleep deprivation impairs and caffeine enhances my performance, but not always our performance: How acting in a group can change the effects of impairments and …

NS Faber, JA Häusser, NL Kerr - Personality and Social …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
What effects do factors that impair or enhance performance in individuals have when these
individuals act in groups? We provide a framework, called the GIE (" Effects of G rouping on I …

Pills or push-ups? Effectiveness and public perception of pharmacological and non-pharmacological cognitive enhancement

L Caviola, NS Faber - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
We review work on the effectiveness of different forms of cognitive enhancement, both
pharmacological and non-pharmacological. We consider caffeine, methylphenidate, and …

Public attitudes towards neurotechnology: Findings from two experiments concerning Brain Stimulation Devices (BSDs) and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)

S Sattler, D Pietralla - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
This study contributes to the emerging literature on public perceptions of neurotechnological
devices (NTDs) in their medical and non-medical applications, depending on their …

The role of artificial intelligence in sustaining the e-commerce ecosystem: Alibaba vs. Tencent

MS Rashidin, D Gang, S Javed… - Journal of Global …, 2021 - igi-global.com
A large number of customers have used traditional e-commerce portals, where there are no
assurance of product quality, display of all features, picture search, virtual chat service …

Why is cognitive enhancement deemed unacceptable? The role of fairness, deservingness, and hollow achievements

NS Faber, J Savulescu, T Douglas - Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
We ask why pharmacological cognitive enhancement (PCE) is generally deemed morally
unacceptable by lay people. Our approach to this question has two core elements. First, we …